My Struggle To Embrace Age
I have no time for your age-related mandates
Age is just a number, you might have heard in your life. But it seems like a good idea when you are young. I also thought the same until I celebrated my birthday last month.
Last week I was out to have dinner with one of my friends and the barkeep asked my friend to show her ID but she didn’t ask me. It’s not a big deal for sure but I just wished it might have felt a tad better about my age if she would have asked for my ID too. Okay, you got me -these are the cheap thrills I live for.
Age is not a number, society, people, everyone around you has a checklist or certain expectation on how you should behave and live your life especially when you are crossing a certain age number.
And if you cross that certain number, and you haven’t done the things that most people of your age have done, you are screwed. People will ask you the reason and every time you talk to them. They may as well secretly judge you and are going to make lots of assumptions whether you are inviting it or not.
It makes it more difficult to age gracefully for a commoner like me when Jennifer Lopez looks so amazing at age of 52.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why other people feel entitled to tell us how we should live. It’s…
